very good evidence that we should be cooling right now, but we're not.
And that's demonstrably a Good Thing for us.
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What constitutes the lot? From my limited vantage, I see only Linux, OSX, and Windows. Of course, this just shows my myopia.
Whose rights get violated when one party signs an agreement with another party that says everyone else gets screwed?
I did not ask "whose rights" - I asked what specific right is violated. Name the right.
There was nothing voluntary about it.
So point to the specific force that was applied to Amazon. Point to the specific agreement they were forced to sign, and name the specific means of force that was used against them - for example a gun, a baseball bat, a threat of violence, etc. If the choice was not voluntary on both sides, then it should be possible to indicate the source of the force, as with any other situation where someone is forced to do something against his will.
I guess you have no problem with the idea of total and complete monopoly control of everything, because that is exactly what this is.
As I said previously, so long as buyers freely choose a company's products, and no rights are violated, then what concern is it whether everyone chooses to buy from one company, and no other companies are able to offer a better/cheaper product? If the so-called "monopoly" company begins to produce an inferior product, or sell at higher prices than buyers are willing to accept, then competition will arise. In reality, all real examples of "monopolies" are those organizations which have colluded with the government to forcibly ban the existence of competition on threat of violence, imprisonment, etc - e.g. local utilities, ISPs in certain areas, the Federal Reserve, etc.
when they are all forced to sell for the same price or exit the business
"Exit the business" - what does that mean, exactly? Amazon is no longer allowed to exist? No longer allowed to sell ebooks? No longer allowed to sell any books? Or does it just mean Amazon is not allowed to sell certain books from publishers who abide by Apple's agreement?
Why is that wrong? Because the people of the country say that it is wrong
That is not an explanation - that is an observation about a conclusion arrived at by specific individuals (which?). By what rationale did those individuals arrive at that conclusion?
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